I find the game too easy to win. I always play "very clever" and I have yet to lose a game. Surely, this is abnormal ....(?)

One thing wich seems to lose the game for the puters : It attacks every single turn. And almost always it seems to choose the easiest position to conquer instead of attacking a position which would break my continent. So if you conquer a continent and just make sure to leave a territory with no army on it in order to deflect the puter's attention, you get to keep the continent conquered even if you have very few men to defend it at the border.
It's not much of a challenge. Please make it much harder to win on "very clever" (like slay is ....) Thanks.
leon

I had downloaded all sorts of maps. Then I deleted some because of bad graphics. Recently, I played Pyramid which (by Yourself I believe ...) and beat it easily.

Some years ago, I purchased "Mission Risk" and I must say it still gives me pleasure to play it because it seems more 'intelligent' than Conquer.

As I said, the main hortcoming in Conquer is that, at whatever level of intelligence, the computer opps seem to prefer to take a card form the lowest adjacent defense instead of breaking a continent, which makes no sense.

Another 'abnormality' is the fact that one could just add 3 soldiers each turn on say 2-3 territories and never attack anyone else and .... still win in 1-2 turns at the end of game.

I cannot notice much of a difference in the play according to the various personalities. All players appear to play the same way : BADLY ! lol

have you tried to also tweak the players file?
you can change the settings for the computer
player from 1-10 + the very clever setting....

1 is like nice to humans 10 is very nasty to humans...

plus try some different games settings...
such as armies, starting positions
less armies for cards...etc...

try my one map khoras i made it so you can't
see whats going on all over the map so
you have to add in some "footwork" scrolling to see
what the computer is doing which every once
in awhile catches ya off guard...

another one i dont make a "contineint"
all one mass i break it up and make it
hard to hold plus low army value....

we are linear creatures to a degree so
people tend to make maps too linear
i do it myself...so i've tried to make
some wierd ones, some realistic ones
some annoying ones, i have about 8...